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The
Best Years in Life

Colloidal
Silver
Has Mainstream Medicine "Singing the
Blues"

By Tony M. Isaacs

(The
Best Years in Life) The widespread
mainstream media coverage of the
"blue man" Paul Karason and his rare
skin condition known as Argyria is
part of a series of largely
misleading and sensationalized scare
stories about the dangers of
colloidal silver turning a person's
skin blue.

Although the Karason story did
not appear to originate from
mainstream medicine or the FDA,
there is little doubt that they have
welcomed it with open arms and have
been quick to trot out "medical
experts" and past FDA warnings to
help "sing the blues" about
colloidal silver. The truth is that
mainstream medicine has a very good
reason to cry long and loud about
colloidal silver, because it does
represent a very real danger – a
danger to the huge profits of the
pharmaceutical industry's patented
antibiotics.

Silver has been used effectively by
mankind to fight germs and ailments
for thousands of years, and the
instances of modern use of colloidal
silver turning people's skin blue
are so rare as to be almost
non-existent - and unlike thousands
of prescribed and approved
over-the-counter mainstream
medications including the common
aspirin, silver has never killed
anyone. As a matter of fact, almost
all of the relative handful of
reported instances have involved one
or more of the following: older
silver products that contained as
much as 10% or more silver (compared
to mere parts per million in modern
colloidal silver), silver nitrate,
home made colloidal silver that was
contaminated with salt, and silver
that has been consumed continuously
in very large quantities over a very
long period of time.

In the case of Karason, he made his
own ionic silver at home for almost
two decades and for many years
consumed a quart or more per day. I
daresay that any prescribed or
over-the-counter medication whose
recommended dosage was a couple of
teaspoons a day would do far worse
than turn a person blue if they
drank a quart or more of it a year!
For the sake of comparison, drinking
a quart or more per day of colloidal
silver would be like a person taking
several bottles of aspirin a day, a
practice that would be lethal in
short order. Karason actually
appears to enjoy his notoriety as
the Papa Smurf blue man, and even
though he sings the praises of how
colloidal silver saved his life and
the many ailments he believes it
cured, the focus of attention is on
his blue skin - a condition that is
actually reversible with proper diet
and herbal cleanses despite
mainstream claims to the contrary.

What is also true about colloidal
silver is that it is far safer, more
effective and less expensive than
the marginally effective and side
effect laden mainstream antibiotics
- and has mainstream and university
studies proving it dating back to
the early 1900's. The best and
strongest of the FDA approved
antibiotics are effective for a
handful of bacteria at best, whereas
colloidal silver is supremely
effective against just about every
kind of single celled pathogen,
including bacteria, fungal growths
and viruses (which antibiotics are
often wrongly prescribed for,
despite the fact that antibiotics
have no effect on viruses).

If the public were told the truth, a
rarity when it comes to mainstream
drugs versus natural competition,
colloidal silver would represent a
huge threat to literally billions of
dollars of profits and so it is no
wonder that mainstream medicine and
their allies in the mainstream media
are once again loudly singing the
blues - just as they have repeatedly
done in the past with misleading
stories and studies about a great
many popular natural plants,
supplements, vitamins and minerals
that represent threats to mainstream
drug profits because they are safer,
more effective and less expensive
alternatives to the unnatural, side
effect laden, hugely expensive and
marginally effective synthetics
created in the labs of the powerful
world pharmaceutical empire.

While there are a great many natural
threats to mainstream profits, whose
use and track records of safety and
effectiveness date back hundreds and
even thousands of years, perhaps no
natural alternative to mainstream
drugs represents as big of a threat
to industry profits as colloidal
silver, and it is no coincidence
that colloidal silver has been
placed at the very top of the
FDA/mainstream medicine hit list.

However, when it comes to warning
and scaring people away from silver,
both the mainstream medical industry
and the FDA have serious credibility
problems. First of all, silver has a
history of safe and effective use
dating back thousands of years. In
addition, it continues to be widely
used today, including being used by
NASA, the US military and Potters
for Peace for water purification,
being used as a germicidal agent by
hospitals and medical suppliers and
was recently incorporated into a new
line of hospital pajamas to prevent
the spread of infection, to name
just a few of its present day uses.

The biggest credibility problem of
all for mainstream medicine and the
FDA regarding silver is likely how
they both approved and embraced
silver for medicinal use at one time
- yet now would have us believe that
silver is both ineffective and
dangerous. At one time silver
products were very much in favor
with both mainstream medicine and
the FDA. No fewer than 34 different
prescribed over-the-counter
medications containing silver were
not only widely sold by industry,
they were also approved by the very
same FDA which now seeks to warn us
of its dangers and have us believe
it is ineffective.

What changed their minds? Perhaps
the obvious answer can be found in
the fact that silver fell out of
favor at the very same time that
patented sulfa drugs and patented
antibiotics created in drug company
labs came on the market. Once that
happened, the non-patentable silver
was no longer a tool for healing,
but a threat to profits.

Zealous protection of mainstream
approved drugs and suppression of
natural competition is nothing new
-look at the estimated 100,000 or
more deaths caused by Vioxx before
the FDA finally removed it from the
market. Look at the ridiculous
actions of the FDA when it
threatened Washington cherry growers
for telling the truth about the
health benefits of eating cherries,
or at the storm trooper actions
against the makers of Charantia
(bitter melon) tea in Florida who
dared put references to some of the
650 plus PubMed studies and
citations about bitter melon on
their website.

The FDA persecutions and
prosecutions of cherry farmers,
bitter melon, and a long line of
other natural alternatives points
out just how extreme the protection
of the big drug companies' products
and profits really is. Consider
this: other than issues of national
security, only in natural health is
it a crime to tell the truth due to
the way the FDA has construed their
rules and definitions to protect
industry. For example, if a company
were to advertise that vitamin C was
a cure for scurvy, as everyone knows
is true, that company could be
prosecuted for selling unapproved
drugs. The same would be true if a
company printed a testimonial from
someone who reported health benefits
due to vitamin C, or any other
vitamin, mineral, supplement or non
FDA approved drug.

For example, only the makers of FDA
approved drugs can use the word
cure, or even imply any health
benefits without the FDA considering
the product a drug. The catch is
that in order to be FDA approved, no
matter how many PubMed cited studies
or other studies have been
performed, and no matter how much of
a history of hundreds or thousands
of years and users, the FDA only
approves drugs that go through its
specific approval process – one that
costs hundreds of billions of
dollars.

When it comes to natural
alternatives, spending such money on
a natural product is prohibitive,
since it could not be patented and
could be freely and cheaply sold by
any number of competitors and it
would be virtually impossible to
ever recover all the costs of
getting the natural product
approved. Though the process is
purported to be one which protects
the public from unsafe medicines
(and we see how well that worked for
the hall of shame list of drugs like
Vioxx, Avandia, etc.), the net
effect of the FDA's drug definitions
and approval process is to exclude
natural competition and insure that
only the patentable and profitable
synthetics created in drug company
labs can be approved and marketed as
having health benefits.

An example of such one-sided
treatment favoring industry came in
the following news story about a lawsuit filed
against the FDA by Public Citizen
after the FDA ignored years of
complaints about the dangers of
ruptured tendons caused by one of
the drug industry's most powerful
and profitable antibiotics:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite
long-standing evidence that
fluoroquinolone antibiotics can
cause tendon ruptures, the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) has failed
to increase its warnings to patients
and physicians about the dangers of
the medicines, Public Citizen told a
federal court Thursday.

Public Citizen sued in the U.S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia, asking the court to force
the FDA to act upon a petition the
consumer group filed with the agency
16 months ago. The FDA has failed to
respond to the petition, which asked
the agency to put a "black box"
warning on fluoroquinolone
antibiotics (such as Cipro, Levaquin
and others) to make doctors and
patients more aware of the risk of
serious tendon injury before tendons
actually rupture.

The petition also urged the FDA to
send a warning letter to physicians,
as well as require an FDA-approved
medication guide to be dispensed
when prescriptions are filled.
Public Citizen contends that the FDA
is violating the Administrative
Procedure Act by not acting upon the
petition.

Stronger warnings could lead to
earlier intervention and prevent
needless injuries by allowing
doctors to switch patients to other
antibiotics, said Dr. Sidney Wolfe,
director of Public Citizen's Health
Research Group.

"While the FDA sits idly by and
ignores the problem, more people
will suffer serious tendon ruptures
that could have been prevented,"
Wolfe said. "The current warning is
buried in a long list of possible
adverse reactions and is far too
easy to miss."

From November 1997 through December
2005, the FDA received 262 reports
of tendon ruptures, mainly of the
Achilles tendon, 258 cases of
tendinitis and 274 cases of other
tendon disorders in patients using
fluoroquinolone antibiotics. An
additional 74 tendon ruptures have
subsequently been reported to the
FDA for a total of 336. Because only
a small fraction of cases are
typically reported to the FDA, the
actual number of ruptures and other
tendon injuries attributable to the
antibiotic is much higher (Source:
Healthy News).

One can only imagine the FDA's
reaction if 336 tendon ruptures had
been reported for those who take the
best antibiotic and pathogen
destroyer on the planet - colloidal
silver. No doubt, they would have
raided the manufacturer with storm
troopers and shut it down years ago,
just as they have done many times
with the manufacturers and sellers
of other natural competitors to drug
company products.

In conclusion, as far as I can tell,
not one single instance of Argyria
has been attributed to properly made
colloidal that was not consumed in
amounts that were up to hundreds of
times the recommended dosage, that
has not stopped the FDA from
continuing to "sing the blues" about
silver or from going after those who
make and sell colloidal silver
products, not because silver
represents a whit of threat to human
health but rather because it
represents a threat to the inflated
bottom line profits of the
mainstream drug manufacturers.

Finding out who the FDA really
serves is a simple task - all you
have to do is follow the money. But
don't simply take my word, let a
noted past FDA commissioner tell you
very clearly what the FDA is really
about:

"The FDA 'protects' the big drug
companies and are subsequently
rewarded, and using the government's
police powers they attack those who
threaten the big drug companies.
People think that the FDA is
protecting them.

It isn't.

What the FDA is doing and what the
public thinks it is doing are as
different as night and day."

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